Contest 08/2012: CLASSIC MOVIES

[Janina]

Ooh, I like this topic a lot.

[ADePALMA1251]

I thought this would contest would be a peice of cake. God, was I wrong.
But, it's a nice topic, non the less. Can't wait till the 15th.

[Till]

hmn, exactly in the year 1987 in Germany there was a movie called "the Joker"

Hi Janina, I just submited my picture for the Classic Movies Contest.

[Jetpack-guy]

[Janina]

Great pictures so far, many different movies .

[Janina]

Fixed .
Only 20 submissions so far, come on! We need some more .

[Janina]

You can vote now! Unfortunately there were only 21 submessions this time... though I thought the topic would be something for everybody. And one picture is disqualified already because it does not fit the topic. But I hope those who joined the contest can enjoy it anyway .

[Till]

hmn, sad there are only 21... but some of them are awesome!

*edit: ok, my favorites are in order: the godfather, scarface, the Jaws (2), the meaning of life

hi. new to the forum. looks like i missed the deadline to submit something for this contest. wanted to share what i made anyway, so here it is. The Big Lebowski

[Caribou]

The Big Lebowski came out in 1998, so it would have been disqualified anyway.

[Janina]

It was difficult to goess who might be in the Top5, there were other great pictures as well.



CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS:

1) Joker
2) Dogzilla
3) Ildorf
4) Till
5) Kukucs





No "Janina's choice" this time, because there weren't enough new participants.
The next contest will start in a couple of hours. The winners got more space for uploads and Kukucs has a free wish for a SP-Studio item.

Congratulations to the winners!

And now, as usual in the latest contests, the unofficial mathematical classification :

1st place: The Godfather: ......rating 4,62 x 13 votes = 60,06 total points
2nd place: Jaws (2):....................................... 3,69 x 13 = 47,97 points
3rd place: Scarface:....................................... 4,36 x 11 = 47,96 points
4th place: Bathroom scene from 'Psycho':...... 3,82 x 11 = 42,02 points
5th place: A trip to the Moon:........................ 3,55 x 11 = 39,05 points
6th place: The Blues Brothers: ..................... 3,90 x 10 = 39,00 points
7th place: Psycho:......................................... 2,92 x 12 = 35,04 points
8th place: The meaning of life:...................... 3,09 x 11 = 33,99 points
9th place: Jaws (1):....................................... 3,00 x 9 = 27,00 points
10th place: The Evil Dead:............................. 2,79 x 9 = 25,02 points

[ADePALMA1251]

Strider, man. I really think you should stop posting these "unofficial mathematical classification" stuff. Just because you're multiplying two numbers related to each other, doesn't mean it'll give a correct classification or whatever. If one picture has 2 votes and it with a rating of 3.5, and anothre has 10 votes with a rating of 1, then it seems like by your standards, that picture with a rating of 1 would win. And that's not how you rank things. And please, stop using this, " ". Now I'm not forcing you to stop, I just think it doesn't make sense to post something that, well, doesn't make sense, especially since Caribou has such a solid ranking list already...
Anyway, congrats to the winners.

[Janina]

Strider is just joking, I don't think he actually believes this is a better result

First of all, I want to say that I ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE CONTESTS and it isn't my intention to polemize.

And now, just say that I'm not joking at all. I really think this way is fairer.
I've explained all in one of the answers on this post (and in other ones before):
It's a case of Maths vs. Statistics.

I just intend to demonstrate that the mean is not the better way to value the pictures, but the easiest given the software available in this website.

Answering to AdePalma's post and his example, just say that it would be as unfair as a picture valued with just one vote of 5 points (result = 5) that now gets a better result than a picture with 9 votes of five and one vote of 4 (result = 4,9).

And I don't understand why I should stop using the teacher's smiley ( ) when I'm just providing a maths lesson.

[Janina]

Oh . I really thought you were kidding, because in our case the amount of votes is no value you could use for a fair result. But now I get what you mean. Huge websites like imdb use different ratings as well, so an unknown movie with 2 or 3 10/10 ratings does not appear in the top lists. But the formula for this is more complicated than "rating x amount of votes". And I don't this this system works good with our numbers of votes.

Usually the amount of votes is very similar, I can't recall a bad picture with a few votes winning because someone gave it 5 points. Usually the ones with many votes are the ones with high ratings.

But of course you can continue to calculate your alternative charts .